One of the developers managed to convert the recording of his wife’s voice into these sounds and to build it into the game.Īs Skripkin recalls, when Perestroika was ready he presented it to one of the many Soviet scientific research institutes: “Work started stalling the next day. Besides the rendition of “Dubinushka,” the game characters pronounce vivid sounds: “Nyam- nyam” (when a player increases “well-being”) and “cha-cha-cha” (the dance of bureaucrats in the end, if the player loses). “For the first time a computer started to ‘sing’ and talk with a human voice,” said the designer.
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The game itself was inspired by a Japanese TV show where people threw logs into a pond in a bid to cross it.Īccording to Skripkin, the presence of the song and other sounds in the computer game distinguished Perestroika from other games, not only in Russia but also abroad. Perestroika was created by Nikita Skripkin, who worked for a cooperative - a new form of economic activity endorsed by the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. The game, though simple, became popular and was installed on millions of PCs.
These red bugs try to annihilate the reform-minded creature, whose goal is to avoid them and get to the top-right corner to reach more advanced levels.
Bad dots also exist for democrats – progressive taxation that diminish the green creature’s “well-being.” Democrats have their enemies – bureaucrats. These bonuses make the frog-democrat stronger.
The user must move the green creature towards dots which represent grocery goods (the late 1980s were a time of total deficit in the USSR) and currency transactions (under Gorbachev foreign currency made its way to Russia).